Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-02-25
Without further action the senate
adjourned.
HOUSE..


.- THE VETO SUSTAINED.
The house refused-yeas. 1876: nays,
115, to pass the dependent pension bill over
the presidents veto; not the constitutional
two-thirds in the affirmative. The bill
produced the warmest debate. Mr.. Bragg.
of Wisconsin, said:
This bill would grant pensions to the
men who had served from December, 1864.
to June, 1865. Who were those men?
They were the scum of the earth. They
were the scum, aye, and the dregs. They
stayed in their homes until they were
boqght,,boqght by men who speculated
the private assurance that they were phys
ical1y so defective that all they had to do
was to 90 to the hospital and not enGanger
their precious carcasSes. Gentlemen; talk
ing about soldiers being in almhouses, the
men who were found there were men who
RaS Mhen come they fEm sft them tSs anS aG haG
lapsed into their old condition. No true,
brave soldier need ever go to the poor
house. The men who went there were ma
tives there. They had no self respect; no
character. They lay down and opened
their mouths for teat to suck. I know gen.
tlemen who have committed themselves
OF the bill and who are grateful for the
veto. [Cries of "who are they?"] know
what am talking about; l have heard
them. [Repeated cries of ''name them,"
name your men," "yOu can't Go it, and
much noise and confusion ''Ihe repub-
lican congressmen-all of them,' was Mr..
Bragg's reply.
Thic rop,orly yoc rrootod with ulad
applause, laughter and jeers. The specta-
tors who filled the galleries to their utmost
capacity, and who listened eagerly to all
that was said, now took part in the
demonstrations Of disapproval and ap-
proval, but without adding to the noise and
confusion sufficiently to justify the speaker
in ordering the clearing Of ithe galleries,
gave vent to their feelings until the close
of the debate. Mr.. Bragg declared the
press was opposed to the bill and con-
tinued:
great republican paper of my state
stood by the president. The great republl-
can papers of Ohio sustained the president.
The great republican papers of Pennsyl-
dent. Papers of New York, almost with
out distinction Of party, stood by the presi
dent. That gallant soldier, the governor
OF Maine, Chamberlain, stood by the presi-
dent; that great soldier Palmer, of Illinois,
stood by the president; Governor Cox, of
Stickles of the Third armory corps said the
veto was most glorious deed. Brave men
of all parties stood by the president; it was
only little minds that went buzZing about
like insects, that opposed him.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, contemptuously
You stand by the president, Mr.. Bragg.
No staff commisary can ever excite me. l
am speaking for what consider the
soldiers interests. The largest G. A. R..
post in my state voted yesterday not to ask
members of congress to go against the
president. 1t is only the class of gentle
men who hang around the grand army
posts who crowd themselves in to get SIS a
are making this grand cry.
MIR. Hepburn, of Iowa, commented on
| the fact that every gentleman who had
spoken against the bill, save one, had voted
for it originally, and said:
| There must be some reason for this. A
large number of them, like myself, termi-
| nate our official lives on the 4th of March,
and large number of them, unlike my
self, are now about the white house "bend-
ing the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift may follow fawning."' Loud cheers.
1t is not an uncommon thing for skilled
! huntsmen to use decoys, so it is that the
solid south that opposes this bill, and that
stimulated this veto, puts forward all Of
these northern gentlemen to represent It,
Not one, Of them, for political reasons,
and has dared to speak here as he will
vote. Why? Because it would challenge
attention to this conspiracy between these
that once were opposed to us and who are
now "our friends" and the wealth of this
country and the metropolitan press of this
the cities speak the sentiment of the cOun-
try. They are the advocates. the mouth
pieces of the wealth aggregated in the
communities where they are published
and am sorry to say that this same wealth
is opposed to the old soldiers.
| Mr.. Watson, of Indiana, closed the de-
bate:
| have been asked whether the president
has ever signed petition asking that
late war. 1hold in my hand a petition
drawn up in 1884, which is TOO long to read
now. It is numerously signed, and in sub
stance asked that a pension of at least $S
month be'granted to all honOrably dis
charged soldiers. 1t contained this endorse
ment:
am sure that the subject of this petition is
worthy of the prompt and careful consideration
of congress and the fullest justice should be
done to the parties in whose behalf this move
ment is made. (Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND.
AS Mr. Matson concluded, nearly every
republican was on his feet and as Mr.
Matson finished reading the endorsement
a loud burst of applause came up from the
republican side. The vote by which the
bill originally passed the house was $50 to
! 76. The house then went into committee
of the whole on the naval bill, but without
completing it adjourned.
! MISCELLANEOUS.
A COMMISSIONER RESIGNS.
Mr.. Montgomery, the commissioner OF
patents, called to-day on the president and
notified him of his desire to return to the
practice of his profession in Michigan early
in the summer.
INGALLS, FOR PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
The senate caucus Of republicans has nom.
mated ingalls, to be president of the SEN
ate. There were 2s votes cast, OF which